The Program Support Staff (PSS), housed within the Office of the Commissioner, is responsible for providing support for cross divisional program analysis including data collection and analysis, planning for initiatives, developing coordinated program and S&E budgeting to support cross divisional efforts, providing tracking and coordination/review for compliance with fiscal and program plans, and assisting with RSA priority development and grants management processes.

The Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) administers and supports a comprehensive array of formula and discretionary grant programs and projects that serve and assist individuals with disabilities.

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) was created by Congress in 1965 to promote the employment of persons who are deaf by providing technical and professional education for the nation's young people who are deaf.

The Executive Administrator is the principal assistant to the OSERS Assistant Secretary with responsibility for coordination and direction of program operations of the office, supervision of the five staff offices and oversight of cross-cutting program activities.

The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) Strategic Plan contains the major goals that OSERS believes it must achieve if it is to better meet the needs of children, youth and adults with disabilities. The Strategic Plan is based on input from employees, customers, and partners and represents OSERS continuing commitment to excellence.

The Policy and Planning Staff, administered by a director, is responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and overseeing all OSERS activities relating to policy formulation, program and strategic planning, regulations, evaluation, grants and contract scheduling activities, and FOIA requests.

The RSA Annual Report provides a description of the activities of RSA. RSA is the principal agency for carrying out Titles I, III, VI and VII, as well as specified portions of Title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. RSA is responsible for preparing and submitting this report to the President and Congress under Section 13 of the Act.

Through its three components, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) guides and supports a comprehensive array of programs and projects that support individuals with disabilities.

Both the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 and the Assistive Technology Act of 2004, as amended (AT Act of 2004) require that the Secretary of Education submit to Congress a report on the activities funded under those respective acts.

RSA and its partners, through their programs, projects and activities, develop a wide range of publications and other printed material to serve individuals with disabilities, their families and their communities.

The State Monitorng and Program Improvement Division (SMPID) is responsible for State Plan review and approval, and for monitoring seven RSA formula grant programs to ensure consistency with federal requirements and to ensure that states continue to implement programs designed to improve results for individuals with disabilities, including youth with disabilities.

The Dear Colleague letter provides an overview of the obligations of public elementary and secondary schools under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504), and the Department?s Section 504 regulations athletic opportunities

The Dear Colleague letter provides an overview of the obligations of public elementary and secondary schools under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504), and the Department?s Section 504 regulations athletic opportunities.?

RSA and its partners, through their programs, projects and activities, develop a wide range of publications and other printed material to serve individuals with disabilities, their families and their communities.

Over many years, the OSERS has supported research in assistive technology, as well as making assistive technology (AT) more available to people with disabilities. More recently, OSERS has supported a number of activities to encourage and support AT reuse under the Assistive Technology Act.

In response to a request from RSA, the Research Triangle Institute conducted a study to examine the feasibility of developing functional status measures for planning and implementing services to consumers in the state-federal Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Services Program.

The Longitudinal Study of the Vocational Rehabilitation Services Program</a> was initiated in 1992 and is being conducted by Research Triangle Institute International. The study's broad purpose is to assess the performance of the vocational rehabilitation (VR) program in assisting eligible individuals to achieve positive, sustainable economic and non-economic outcomes as a result of their receipt of VR services.